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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Jacobs" data-source="post: 5720305" data-attributes="member: 23937">Psionics are a tricky subject. The people who want psionics in Pathifnder the most, as far as I can tell, are overwhelmingly fans of the 3.5 Power Point system (or some variant).I'm probably the BIGGEST fan of psioncis at Paizo, but I'm absolutely NOT a fan of the power point system. I much prefer psionic characters to use their magic more like how the sorcerer uses magic—a spontaneous but still Vancian system.I'm pretty sure that a psionics book that presents a Pathfinder take on psionics but without using the power point system would aggravate and annoy the majority of those who want psionics, while those who don't particularly want psioncis would be difficult to convince to check out the new system in the first place, resulting in a book that lots of people would hate (either because they check it out and don't like it or because they don't and just assume they won't like it).If we ever DO something with psionics, as a result, I'll be pushing hard for us to NOT call it psionics, but instead something else. Mind magic? Psychic magic? Mesmerisim? Anything other than psionics, so that we don't imply an "overwriting" of psionics as they're "supposed" to exist in the framework of Pathfinder. By calling it something else, such new rules would exist more "side by side" with Dreamscarred's work (or with the 3.5 rules, for that matter).Now... all that said, we only put out 3 rulebooks a year, and traditionally, one of those is a bestiary-type book. Which means, at a rate of 2 books a year, we don't have a lot of opportunities to branch out into other topics, and so we have to be VERY careful and picky about what two rulebooks we do in a year. There's a HECK of a lot of competition for our attention, in other words, compounded by a growing desire at Paizo to go new ways with the game and not just mimic the release pattern of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd edition D&D books.Anyway... a sort of round-about reply to answering "why hasn't Paizo done a psionics book/when will Paizo do a psionics book?" To the OP: Welcome back! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

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